The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.
Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.
Madame Bovary is myself.
Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.